Your 25 Top Movies of Any Era

[RCMerchant]

1970s




 13. Eraserhead (1977)
 

I may have to do a 'part 2' on the 70's!

[bob]

the silent film era

in no real order

Nosferatu (1922)
Häxan (1922)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
The Kid (1921)
City Lights (1931)
The Gold Rush (1925)
Metropolis (1927)
The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920)
The Circus (1928)
The General (1926)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
The Golem (1920)
Un Chien Andalou (1929)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Lost World (1925)
Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Sunrise (1927)
Pandora’s Box (1929)
Downhill (1927)
A Dog's Life (1918)
Modern Times (1936)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
A Trip to the Moon (1902)

[RCMerchant]

Ok...the 40's. I dread trying this.

1. the MALTESE FALCON (1941) Bogie, Lorre, Greenstreet, and Astor!
2. the WOLF MAN (1941) Lon Jr.! Bela! Claude Raines!
3. WHITE HEAT (1949) With Jimmy Cagney.
4. FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN (1943)
5. ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948)
6. D.O.A. (1949)
7. KEY LARGO (1948) Bogie and Bacall, and Edward G. Robinson.
8. the BODY SNATCHER (1945) With Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.
9. the CAT PEOPLE (1942) With Simone Simon.
10. the MAD MONSTER (1942) With George Zucco and Glenn Strange.

More in a while!

[RCMerchant]

the silent film era

in no real order

Häxan (1922)

Sweet Satan! I forgot HAXAN!  
EDIT: It's on there now! I had to take off a Harold Llyod film.  

[RCMerchant]

OK... on forward! This is harder than silent movies...I dunno why...

11. HOUSE OF DRACULA (1945) With Glenn Strange, Lon Chaney Jr, and John Carradine. For some reason, I like this one better than-
12. HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1944) With Glenn Strange, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., and John Carradine.
13. MY FAVORITE BRUNETTE (1947) With Bob Hope, Peter Lorre, and Lon Chaney Jr.
14. SORRY, WRONG NUMBER (1948) With Barbara Stanwyk and Burt Lancaster.
15. the BIG SLEEP (1946) Bogie and Bacall!
16...I'll get back to you.

 

[bob]

the 1940s!

in no real order

Citizen Kane (1941)
The Third Man (1949)
Notorious (1946)
Double Indemnity (1944)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Cat People (1942)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Rebecca (1940)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
His Girl Friday (1940)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Bitter Rice (1949)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Pinocchio (1940)
The Black Cat (1941)
Rope (1948)
Dumbo (1941)
49th Parallel (1941)
Saboteur (1942)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Ivan the Terrible (1944)
Black Narcissus (1947)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Hamlet (1948)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

[RCMerchant]

^ the GRAPES OF WRAITH ! Mother f**ker! How did I forget that one?
I'll add that one!  Thanks!  

[bob]

era lists are tough man

[Trevor]

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[Rev. Powell]

The 40s are hard because they made fewer total films, due to the war. I could go with:

1. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946)
2. FANTASIA (1940)
3. CASABLANCA (1942)
4. THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
5. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
6. THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1947)
7. ROPE (1948)
8. HELLZAPOPPIN' (1941)
9. SPELLBOUND (1945)
10. THE LOST WEEKEND (1945)
11. MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (1947)
12. THE BODY SNATCHER (1945)
13. ABBOT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948)
14. PINOCCHIO (1940)
15. DETOUR (1945)
16. NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK (1941)
17. NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947)
18. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1941)
19. BAMBI (1942)
20. CITIZEN KANE (1941)
21. HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO (1944)
22. BICYCLE THIEVES (1948)
23. BARON MUNCHAUSEN (1940)
24. DEAD OF NIGHT (1945)
25. THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940)

bonus: MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (1943, short)

[Rev. Powell]

The 40s are hard because they made fewer total films, due to the war. I could go with:

1. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946)
2. FANTASIA (1940)
3. CASABLANCA (1942)
4. THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
5. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
6. THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1947)
7. ROPE (1948)
8. HELLZAPOPPIN' (1941)
9. SPELLBOUND (1945)
10. THE LOST WEEKEND (1945)
11. MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (1947)
12. THE BODY SNATCHER (1945)
13. ABBOT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948)
14. PINOCCHIO (1940)
15. DETOUR (1945)
16. NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK (1941)
17. NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947)
18. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1941)
19. BAMBI (1942)
20. CITIZEN KANE (1941)
21. HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO (1944)
22. BICYCLE THIEVES (1948)
23. BARON MUNCHAUSEN (1940)
24. DEAD OF NIGHT (1945)
25. THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940)

bonus: MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (1943, short)

And looking at others' lists I see I forgot CAT PEOPLE (thought it was 50s) and DOA.

[RCMerchant]

Ok- I'm inspired now!

17. the GRAPES OF WRATH (1940) With Henry Fonda and John Carradine.
18. the LOST WEEKEND (1945) with Ray Milland
19. the FACE BEHIND THE MASK (1941) With Peter Lorre.
20. the TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE (1948) With Bogie.
21. the LEOPARD MAN (1943)
22. the DEVIL BAT (1941) With Bela Lugosi.
23. I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943)
24. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) With Fred MacMurry, Barbara Stanwyk, and Edward G. Robinson.
25. DETOUR (1945) With Sterling Hayden.


Aha!

[bob]

here we go

1950's... in no real order

1 Godzilla (1954)
2 Paths of Glory (1957)
3 The Killing (1956)
4 North by Northwest (1959)
5 Rear Window (1954)
6 On the Waterfront 1954)
7 All About Eve(1950)
8 Sunset Boulevard (1950)
9 Rashomon (1950)
10 Summer Interlude (1951)
11 Ikiru (1952)
12 Gate of Hell (1953)
13 Stalag 17 (1953)
14 Tokyo Story (1953)
15 The War of the Worlds (1953)
16 Ben-Hur (1959)
17 Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
18 Seven Samurai (1954)
19 Lady and the Tramp (1955)
20 Forbidden Planet (1956)
21 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
22 The Blob (1958)
23 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
24 12 Angry Men (1957)
25 Some Like It Hot (1959)

[Cult_Moody_Movies]

1990's - Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Picks

1. Princess Mononoke (1997)
2. Army of Darkness (1992)
3. The Iron Giant (1999)
4. Jurassic Park (1993)
5. Perfect Blue (1997)
6. Se7en (1995)
7. Ghost (1990)
8. The Rocketeer (1991)
9. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
10. Terror Firmer (1999)
11. From Dusk till Dawn (1996)
12. Dark City (1998)
13. Tremors (1990)
14. In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
15. Misery (1990)
16. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
17. Ghost in the Shell (1995)
18. Ringu (1998)
19. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
20. Six-String Samurai (1998)
21. The Crow (1994)
22. Toy Story (1995) & Toy Story 2 (1999)
23. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
24. Porco Rosso
25. Groundhog Day (1993)

I struggled here. The 90's were not my favorite nor did they hold up. Last Action Hero (1993) almost made my cut. XD

[bob]

1960s in film... in no real order

1 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2 Psycho (1960)
3 Eyes Without a Face (1960)
4 Yojimbo (1961)
5 Dr. No (1962)
6 The Great Escape (1963)
7 High and Low (1963)
8 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
9 Planet of the Apes (1968)
10 I Am Curious (Blue) (1968)
11 I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
12 Midnight Cowboy (1969)
13 Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
14 Death by Hanging (1968)
15 Rosemary's Baby (1968)
16 In the Heat of the Night (1967)
17 From Russia With Love (1963)
18 The Battle of Algiers (1966)
19 Dr. Strangelove (1964)
20 The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
21 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
22 Cleopatra (1963)
23 Goldfinger (1964)
24 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
25 Spartacus (1960)